1) CMA Fest,” 8-11 p.m. Tuesday,. ABC. An annual summer highlight,, this is culled from four nights of Nashville concetss. Jelly Roll and Ashley McBryde host, with music from Lainey Wilson (shown here), Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Kelsea Ballerini, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett, Clint Black, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Post Malone, Big & Rich and more. Read more…
At times, the streaming world seems full of sad souls and crumbling kingdoms. Eva Longoria decided to go another way.
“We’ve had a wave of dystopian shows and I’m always, ‘Ugh, I’m so depressed,” she told the Television Critics Associatdion.
So she stars in “Land of Women,” a six-parter (the poster is shown here) that starts Wednesday (June 26) on Apple TV+. “This show is so blue-skies, it’s so escapism,” she said, inspiring viewers to think: “I want to go to Spain and drink wine.”
Which is what she did. She went to Peralada, a winemaking village of 1,860 people, in Spain’s Catelonia region. There, the film crew dictated the pace. Read more…
1) Olympic track-and-field trials begin, 6:30 p.m., USA Network, 9 p.m., NBC, both also on Peacock. This is what used to dominate the Olympics, filled with running and leaping (shown here). It continues through Monday, pauses, then returns June 27, Also today: swimming at 5:30 p.m. on USA and 8 on NBC, swimming and diving in the daytime on Peacock. Read more…
